Chapter 3096 Red Sky (Part 2)

"Attention, all units! Japanese fighters are coming. Team 1 is on high alert to protect the bomber formation. Team 2 is coming with me to shoot down the Japanese! The sky belongs to the Red Army!"

"Ura!!!"

At this moment, it was the No. 27 La-7 fighter piloted by Kozhedub that was dispatching the fleet to assign combat missions through the airborne radio.

Kozhedub, the commander-in-chief of the escort formation for this air raid, gave an order to intercept and destroy the La-7 fighters in the higher airspace, except for those that continued to stay in the higher airspace and were ready to intercept and destroy any Japanese fighters that broke into the bomber formation.

The remaining 16 La-7 fighters pushed the throttle hard under the leadership of Kozhedub, and began to accelerate forward, aiming at the attacking Japanese fighters at a relatively advantageous altitude and rushing to kill them.

Such a large formation air raid, and it was a deep strike bombing deep into the Japanese-occupied area.

To be honest, it is almost impossible and unrealistic to enter without anyone noticing and let the Japanese army not notice it at all.

Some Japanese troops who still had the ability to report battlefield situations had already reported the news of the Red Army's super-large mixed aircraft group.

The Kwantung Army was not stupid when they heard about this. They were smart and knew that the Russians could mobilize such a large-scale aircraft group to penetrate deep into their own hinterland at this time. The target could only be a very simple one - the airport.

According to the front-line advancement and advancement speed of the Russian ground forces, the Kwantung Army Headquarters determined that it was time for the Russians to launch further air strikes and bomb large military airports to eliminate their own deep aviation operations capabilities.

Compared with the moon surface that had been bombed to the point where there was nothing to bomb, and became a crater-covered and debris-filled surface, or the front-line field airports and small airports that had been captured by the Red Army ground forces, it was obvious that these large military airports located near large cities in the depths were more valuable for bombing.

The judgment of the Kwantung Army Headquarters was indeed good, and the basic ability was online and not wrong.

But guessing right does not mean that it can be intercepted. Being able to think of it and being able to do it are two completely different things.

The large military airport in the rear of the Kwantung Army, which received a timely advance warning, had already been screened by the Red Army Air Force in the early stage. Under the premise that the losses were already quite large, they forcibly pieced together almost all the "advanced fighters" that could be deployed to intercept and block.

If it is said that the Kwantung Army was reluctant to use it until the last moment, and only dragged it out from the reinforced aircraft hangar at this critical moment, it is indeed a relatively good thing.

The late-stage Ki-61 Type 3 Fighter "Flying Swallow" is a single-seat medium-sized fighter of the Army Red Deer, which is famous for its low-altitude maneuverability. The weapon configuration adopts 2 20 guns and 2 7mm machine guns, which is already quite luxurious for the Army Red Deer.

This thing is already the best fighter that the Kwantung Army can currently get, and its performance is relatively good, reaching the mainstream level threshold of similar fighters, especially in the field of low-altitude dogfighting, which it is good at.

However, this is only relatively speaking, and this is relatively compared with those fighters with normal low-altitude dogfighting capabilities.

The La-7 was a well-known "dogfighting king" on the Eastern Front. Even the dogfighting king in the hands of the Germans, the BF-109F4, which was later honored as the "Gundam F4" by military fans, was chased and beaten by the La-7 at low altitude.

It is not difficult to guess what the result will be when the Ki-61, which uses the same imitation engine as the BF-109E, faces the La-7.

Especially when the pilots of the Kwantung Army had to face the Guards Fighter Air Force led by Kozhedub, who had just won the Patriotic War.

The catastrophe of these Kwantung Army pilots actually began the moment they appeared in the eyes of Kozhedub and his comrades.

Facing the 16 fighters of the Japanese army, Kozhedub, who was in a balance of numbers, took the lead, pushed the throttle to the bottom, aimed at the Japanese plane in the front, and fell straight down.

The aiming ring was fixed on the nose of the Japanese fighter plane, and the ballistic lead including relative speed and distance was estimated based on experience.

Click --

Boom boom boom --

Korjidub, holding the joystick tightly and pulling the trigger, fired a short burst of instantaneous shots. The three 20mm aircraft cannons concentrated on the nose of the La-7 burst out a red tracer barrage, heading straight for the Japanese fighter plane that had already sensed the danger and was making evasive maneuvers.

One after another, the 20mm shells tore through the skin and poured into the fuselage. The mixed chain of high-explosive shells and tracer armor-piercing shells exploded and penetrated, directly breaking the outer edge of the Japanese plane's wing and igniting the built-in fuel tank in the rear half of the fuselage.

"I'm on fire! I'm hit! I'm on fire!!!"

The Japanese pilot who looked up but couldn't find any trace of the enemy plane was panicked, and the dashboard that was spinning wildly like a clock disorder had already pulled the alarm to the maximum.

He wanted to open the cockpit and jettison the plane, but the plane, which had completely lost control of the flight state, was spiraling down, and the missing half of the wing was obviously fatal.

The whole person was spinning like being thrown into a drum washing machine. The Japanese pilot trapped in the cockpit had no strength at all, and his brain was almost shaken, let alone opening the cockpit and parachuting to escape.

At this moment, Kozhidub, who was extremely skilled in artillery, had already escaped with one shot, and after being sure that he could kill the target with just that one shooting window, he aimed the three 20mm aircraft cannons with residual heat at the next target again.

Da da da da——

"Another one! Two! Great fight, Ura!!!"

The radio echoed with the excited shouts of the wingman pilot after he witnessed the whole process.

It was not until this time that Kozhidub, who was fully focused on the battle, was able to take some time off from his concentration and focus on the results of the battle.

The first enemy plane that was just shot down by him had already crashed to the ground and exploded. There were no parachute flowers in the air, which obviously meant that the plane was destroyed and the people on board were dead.

After the dive, Kozhidub, with his speed advantage, immediately changed the turn, and the sharp operation of converting altitude into speed and further converting speed into rapid maneuvers was completed in an instant.

The nose was pointed while maintaining sufficient speed, and before the Japanese pilot could react that he had been bitten, the second enemy plane that was shot down by the tail was now burning in the air with raging flames and thick smoke.

It seemed that it would explode and disintegrate in the air before it hit the ground. Similarly, if there were no parachute flowers falling, the end would most likely be the destruction of the plane and the people on board.

With only two precise short bursts, he shot down two enemy planes in succession, and the interval between the two results was less than half a minute.

The remaining Japanese pilots, who didn't know what a great god they had met, were still being chased by other La-7 fighters under Kozhidub in the sky.

Seeing this, Kozhidub did not hesitate at all.

His sharp eyes once again fixed on the Japanese fighter plane that was being chased by another La-7 that was diving down, less than 700 meters away. He gently swung the joystick in his hand and adjusted the nose of the plane to rush straight ahead.

I haven't written about air combat for a long time. Let's give my brothers a refreshment. After watching too much land combat, let's do some air combat.